Taliban officials put a Taliban flag, earlier a property league by Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid, astatine the Government Media Information Center, successful Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. Mujahid vowed Tuesday that the Taliban would respect women's rights, forgive those who resisted them and guarantee a unafraid Afghanistan arsenic portion of a publicity blitz aimed astatine convincing satellite powers and a fearful colonisation that they person changed. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban officials put a Taliban flag, earlier a property league by Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid, astatine the Government Media Information Center, successful Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. Mujahid vowed Tuesday that the Taliban would respect women's rights, forgive those who resisted them and guarantee a unafraid Afghanistan arsenic portion of a publicity blitz aimed astatine convincing satellite powers and a fearful colonisation that they person changed. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Days aft the Taliban took implicit the superior of Afghanistan, women were staying indoors.

The Taliban person repeatedly said that women’s rights volition beryllium protected nether their rule, with Taliban leaders promising to dainty women with respect and wrong Sharia law. But it is wide that galore Afghan women are terrified astir their future.

Dozens of demonstrators staged a rally extracurricular the United Nations’ Geneva compound to telephone for respect for women and state of expression. They held up banners speechmaking “We privation peace” and “Make the Afghan radical count!”

Under the Taliban’s mentation of Islamic law, women indispensable screen their assemblage caput to toed and are denied galore basal freedoms.

At an quality Tuesday successful Jacksonville, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, said he’s precise acrophobic astir nationalist security.

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“Al Qaeda intends to return. They mean to rebuild and they mean to endanger america again. We can’t let that to happen. This medication has to travel up with a program to forestall that from happening, and that’s the 1 happening I person been focused on. And we, not conscionable maine but others, Democrats and Republicans, I’ve been talking to the medication astir this for months now. What is your program to forestall Al Qaeda from returning? It’s truly important travel guardant with that,” Rubio said.

Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper blames President Joe Biden for the chaos successful the country.

“The information is President Biden owns this. He owns the mess, the catastrophe that has been created implicit the past respective weeks, mates of weeks, and should ain up to it. And really, astatine this point, we person to remedy the situation,” Esper said.

The White House says American lives were connected the enactment if the subject stayed longer.

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”What has unfolded implicit the past period has proven decisively that it would person taken a important American unit beingness aggregate times greater than what President Biden was handed to halt a Taliban onslaught and we would person taken (American) casualties,” said National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

The Afghan president has fled the country, and the Taliban installed themselves wrong the statesmanlike palace.

Kabul’s airdrome was reopened for evacuation flights nether the extortion of overseas forces, including thousands of American soldiers.

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